American people Quote by Robert Caro

Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency…

— Bill Ayers

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own…

— David Greenberg

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in…

— Robert Dallek

“The significance of LBJ's personal traits accounted for the growing belief, especially by anti-war activists, that Vietnam was "Johnson's War." His critics are correct…

— James T. Patterson

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects.…

— James M Strock

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president,…

— Eric Alterman

“With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President leads, the…

— Robert A. Caro

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok,…

— J. William Fulbright

“To one degree or another every president is haunted by those who went before, but few so literally as Johnson. No president had ever…

— Nancy Gibbs

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

— Robert Dallek

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

— William Westmoreland